Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-01-11
Hungarians are said to be greater
readers Of newspapers than Ameri-
cans.


cans.
Seven thousand miles of railroad
have been built in the United States
, this year, or more than twice as many
rs were built In 1885.
According to the decision of the
U. 5. supreme court criminal can
not be extradited for one offense and
then tried for another.
Assisted by President Cleveland,
delegate Toole, of Montana, has sue
.ceedcd in ousting every republican
Office holder of the Presidential class
in that Territory.
The King Pau is the name of the
official Chinese paper 1t was start
ed in the year oil as semi-occas.
ional journal. Then for some ceutu-
ries it was weekly and at the be-
ginning of the present century it be-
came a daily. 1t publishes three
editions, and has six editors, with a
circulation OF $4,000.
''How did it happen that you made
such fine savsages yesterday" asked
customer of his butcher. "Well,
you see," explained the butcher, ga
sporting man gave me pointer, and
-" "say no more," said the customer,
turning pale and turning quick to go
home. Il New Orleans Picayune.
There is no probability of any ac-
ton at this session of Congress upon
the Northern Pacific land grant. The
house committee is determined to adj
here to the position taken by the
House at tho last session, and will
have unconditional forfeiture of the
entire grant west of Bismarck, or
nathing. This will tie up for fur
Their period the lands along the Col
iumbia river.
Cinnamon were offered $40 each to
participate in a Chinamen's foot race
in Brooklyn on Thanksgiving Day,
but none could be induced to enter.
The efforts to Christianize these vel |
low heather seem to be meeting with
poor success. They are becoming
converted so slowly that we shouldn't
wonder il they would refuse to play
baseball on Sunday Norristown
Herald.
The Presidents recommendation
for the repeal of the presumption,
timber culture and desert land acts
is very timely, and that the home
stead laws be so amended as to afford
no longer chance for evasion of the
provisions requiring actual cultivation
and continuous occupation for Civ.
en- period by the settler 1t is no.
torious that hundreds of thousands of
acres OF land have been appropriated
under the presumption act for the
purpose of speculation.
Returns from fourteen States, only
one of which is Southern (MarylandA
show prohibition gains, as compared
with the election of 1884, ranging
from 3s per cent. in Michigan up
to 459 per cent. in Oregon. The
gain in Ohio is l6l per cent, in New
Jersey 22l per cent. New York polls
36,436 prohibition votes this year,
against 25,0l6 in 1884 Pennsyivan.
ia 32,4223 this year, against Is, 2S3 in
1884. With the prohibition vote
bothering Republicans and the labor
vote bothering Democrats, political
calculations will be rather uncertain
in 1888.
The statistics of wages neeessaries of )
life, trades societies, strikes ana lockouts -
by j. ID. Weeks, constituting volume Xxx
of the tenth United States census, throws
u flood of sht on the condition of the In. i
boring classes. According 10 its statistics
T02 strikes aud lockouts occurred in 1880.
OF which details were obtained regarding /;
one-third, showing loss in wages of more !
han ~, 100000. Ii the same proportion :
applies to the other twoJhirds the entire